Things Quotes
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Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.
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Things are a bit complicated. We have to change the team.
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In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.
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You're going to want to know how these things are moving in the future.
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The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
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Through the years I've never stopped doing things, thinking about things, and I still think young.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it.
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There are things you fantasize about doing and saying, and then ultimately don't because it's illegal.
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Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?
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I've also done things that put me in odd situations.
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I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
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Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.
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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
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Things get very clear when you're cornered.
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“I love old things. Modern things are so cold. I need things that have lived.”
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If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.
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Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.
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I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.
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The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.
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Sometimes, things need to come undone for better things to come together.
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It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.
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LA people are more laid back about certain things.
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Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
